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Quick usability enhancement to perldoc.pod

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Matthew Horsfall

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Jul 31, 2011, 8:34:19 PM7/31/11
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Hello,

I believe the following minor change may help new users / browsers of
perlfaq.pod make better use of the perlfaq:

mhorsfall@Fireforge:~/my-perl$ git show
commit 15e42d2617514e42a0c1e082d6d9b5175c52b5f5
Author: Matthew Horsfall <wolf...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jul 31 20:18:57 2011 -0400

Add quick note to perlfaq main page about searching the perlfaq

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq.pod b/pod/perlfaq.pod
index 9ca88c8..61b8f3b 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq.pod
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ that lets you read the L<perlfaq>:

$ perldoc perlfaq

+or search the L<perlfaq> question headings:
+
+ $ perldoc -q open
+
+See C<perldoc> for more information.
+
Besides your local system, you can find the perlfaq on the web, including
at http://perldoc.perl.org/ .

The patch can be found at:
https://github.com/wolfsage/perl/commit/15e42d2617514e42a0c1e082d6d9b5175c52b5f5

Thanks for your consideration,

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)

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